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Turning 30: Not Flirty but am Thriving
I recently turned 30 and am unsure how I feel about it
Thirty, flirty and thriving, I want to be thirty, flirty and thriving. This is a line from the 2004 movie “13 Going on 30”. Which came out when I was about 13 actually. I never wished to be 30 growing up. I was perfectly content with each age as they came but now that I’m 30…it’s like I feel like my life is speeding up. It is almost like a quarter life crisis, just 5 years late.
I’m only just now obtaining a Bachelors degree after 12 years of sitting in my anxiety about what I want to do with my future. I’ve changed my major many times in technical college and university. Suffice it to say I’m one confused millennial woman.
I’ve worked many kinds of jobs: banking, retail, food service and office positions. None of these jobs are what I want to do long-term. I also don’t want to be unemployed either. My husband encouraged me to take a break. So you know what I did? I did the exact opposite. I took a job that was in my field of study (sort-of): full-time and school full-time. After a couple of weeks, I was already burned out. I started to realize that this position I took…
